Demonic_Duck Posted April 2, 2015 at 03:30 PM Report Share Posted April 2, 2015 at 03:30 PM 手手手手手 手手手手手 手手手手手 手手手手手 It means "characters that are perfectly easy to remember but take freakin' forever to write out by hand". 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Demonic_Duck Posted April 2, 2015 at 04:10 PM Report Share Posted April 2, 2015 at 04:10 PM Pronunciation: [xuǎng]. Meaning: that feeling of contentedness you get after learning a word for which you'd been wanting to find out the Chinese for ages. Alternatively, the feeling of contentedness you get after learning a word that has no real equivalent in your mother tongue, but now you know about its existence you wonder how you ever survived without it. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
imron Posted April 2, 2015 at 11:51 PM Report Share Posted April 2, 2015 at 11:51 PM Pronunciation: [xuǎng] So is final pronounced like shuang or like quan with a g on the end? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Demonic_Duck Posted April 3, 2015 at 05:20 AM Report Share Posted April 3, 2015 at 05:20 AM [xu-] as in [xué], [-ǎng] as in [shuǎng]. I want to say it's 学爽切, but I don't know what that would imply about the phonetic quality of the “u”. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Join the conversation
You can post now and select your username and password later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.
Note: Your post will require moderator approval before it will be visible.